On Friday 28 November 2008 10:41:55 Thanasis wrote: > Regarding kernel maintenance, mostly from the point of view of security, > which is the best way to go: > 1) Having gentoo-sources in /var/lib/portage/world, which would mean the > sources would be upgraded whenever portage marks a newer version as > stable (provided someone follows stable)? > 2) Not having gentoo-sources in /var/lib/portage/world, which would mean > the sources would be upgraded only as a dependency for some other > package (which is quite improbable/rare)? > > (or, I may be missing something :-) )
Yes, you are missing the entire point. Every kernel ebuild is in it's own SLOT so an upgrade will never change anything that's already there, it gets an entirely new source tree in /usr/src -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
